New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-13
TIE FREIGHT TRAIN ROBBERIEs.
FINDING DYNAMITE IN THE HOUSE OF ONE OF tn

FINDING DYNAMITE IN THE HOUSE OF ONE OF THE
PRIsONERs-A LAW TO FIT THE CASE.
PITTsBURG April 1.-THE Wholesale arrests of the EN-
poyes of the Panhandle Railroad for robbng freight.
trains was the principal topic Of conversation among
railroad men and people generally to-day superintendent
Taylors office besieged by dozens Of men who were
In search OF employment They hocked to the depot so
fast that line of them extended outside OF the ONCE
waiting for their applications for situations as ireght
conductors or brakemen to bc heard Many of them
given employment The road Is now fully equipped
and there is delay in the movement OF freight
No have been reported last night Special
Agent Rue said this morning that out OF the
sixty under arrest there wcrc not
than one, possibly two Of them who stood any
OF escape Said he "Wc expect to mako eight or
ten arrests Of who worked the road success.
fully for tme and hen for fear OF detection took posi-
ons other lines. This will swell the total number OF
arrests to sixty-eight or seventy"
Mr. Rue said that the saddes case In connection with
The arrests that OF man whose child was dying
When the officers knocked at the door OF his home on
Sunday night sitting with his wife by the bedside
OF his sick child. He broke down completely.
The capture Of j. r. Dunlap at Dennson, Ohio, yester
day particularly pleased the detectives As stated last
night he made confession, in which he said that the
stealing had been going for months There was no
organization among the robbers. Dunlap said, and no
regular place OF work Each worked by ITSELF The
"fences, Dunlap said, located in NewPhadelphla,
Dcnnson. Steubenvillc Cincinnati PitsDurg and Colum
bus Dunaps assertion the officers OF the
road still believe that tho plunderers were thoroughly
organized and carrying the robbries under sys
ematc direction Of the shrewd leaders Betrayal meant
death TO the traitor
While searching through the effects of OF the ring.
leaders OF the Panhandle robbers this morning. Special
officer Miller discovered package containing SIX giant
dynamite cartridges, sufficient to blow up the largest
building in town. further examination disclosed fuse
and caps Miller nmated that the object OF the robbcr
in securing and storing the dynamite was known, and
that would make interesting reading when the proper
time for its disclosure came. 49,.
ant District Attorney Pagan and John Hampton ator
ney for the Pennsylvania Company, In regard 10 the
indictment trial of the prisoners The trials Will De
pushed as speedily possible It is believed that
large number of the will plead guilty on one or two
charges aud thus escape trial on an accumulation OF
charges number whose steaings were trifilng Will be
discharged and told to leave this part OF the
have been made have been withheld by the company:
There little doubt that the present exposure VIII lead
exposures other roads Some or these are IN the
Pennsylvania Company system and some In the Baltl-
more and It's said that the stealing OF these other
roads confined to box-car retghts Through the
aid OF teamsters and yard agents large quantes OF pig
iron manufactured iron nd steel have been stolen
from the cars In Pittsburg an 4 other cities.
telegram from Harrisburg states that Dili was In
roduced In the state Legislature last night wmcn IN
tended such the railroad car rooDeres
brought TO light I'm this city yesterday The bill Is Ia the
shape OF amendment TO the Penal Code relating 70
breaking entering locomotives The proposed
act roydes that person offending shall be guilty
felony and conviction be sentenced to pay ne not
separate and solitary confinement at labor not exceeding
On